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Wells–– Robert Cleon, 52, of Keene, NH, passed away on November 29, 2011 in Keene, NH. Funeral services will be held on Friday, December 16, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, 37 Lake Road, Newport, VT with the Rev. Paul Prince officiating. Friends may call on Friday, December 16, 2011 at the funeral home from 1 p.m. until the hour of the funeral. Spring interment will be held at the Pine Grove Cemetery in Newport. On-line condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch-converse-rushford.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, locally family owned and operated.
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Bridgeport cops still on job in schools
Ed board: Plan to remove security from police oversight needs more study
BRIDGEPORT -- School security remains, for the time being, in the hands of the city police department, after the Board of Education was dealt a double blow Monday night from an adversarial crowd and legal opinion.
After a blistering two hours of public comment, a board that seemed prepared to undo an understanding between police and Bridgeport schools, engineered when a state-appointed school board was in control, voted unanimously after midnight Tuesday to send the proposal back to committee for more study.
The retreat did not come without freshman board member Andre Baker saying how angry he was at the City Attorney's Office for delivering an opinion Monday that school police are under the police chief's command, no matter what resolution the board passed.
"The intent was to have a dialogue," Baker said. "I do not believe school safety just occurs by having police officers take kids out in handcuffs. It is about prevention."
Joe Larcheveque, another school board freshman and chairman of its security committee, said he agreed that the matter deserved more discussion.
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Bridgeport's school system has:
Five police officers assigned by the city police department that work as school resource officers in the district. They are sworn officers with arrest powers and carry guns. They are members of AFSCME Local 1159, Council 15. As part of a grant, the city is anticipating 10 additional school resource officers in July.
Eight school police, also sworn officers with arrest powers and carry guns. Called special police officers, these officers are members of NAGE Local R-1-200.
Seventy-five school security guards who are not certified and do not carry weapons.
School resource officers are funded through the city budget. The SROs and guards are funded by the school district.
On Jan. 23, 2012, the school board approved a resolution to allow the city police department to manage school police operations.
The City Attorney's Office said regardless of the agreement, sworn police officers answer to chief of police, not the school board.
"As we work these issues out, our children are safe," Larcheveque said.
Police Chief Joseph Gaudett, who waited out the six-hour meeting, said afterward he was satisfied with the delay, particularly since the support for keeping the merger seemed overwhelming.
"Hopefully, we can go back and iron out any differences they feel we may have," Gaudett said.
Earlier Monday, he issued a letter to the board, saying school police -- sworn officers with arrest powers -- remain under his command, regardless of any vote the school board takes.
The effort to undo the partnership came because some members of the board were unhappy that school security personnel were being made to patrol parks and answer non-school-related calls during summer hours. There is also an objection to sworn officers patrolling outside schools in cars, rather being stationed in the schools.
The salaries of the district's 75 security guards and eight special police officers are paid by the school district. The city, however, pays for five school resource officers, who are also sworn officers. And since the merger, training and extra manpower has been provided to the entire security staff at city expense.
Since the merger, which was approved in January 2012, its supporters say arrests are down and the district is getting grants it would not get if there were not a partnership between the schools and the police department. Many told the board not to mess with what seems to be working.
A dozen school principals stood up Monday night when a survey of their membership was read that found 82 percent support keeping the police department in charge of school security.
"Since the memorandum of understanding went into effect, our security officers are more accountable, better trained, response time has (never) been faster," said Batalla Principal Hector Sanchez.
Marilyn Carrasquillo, a Discovery School security guard, surrounded by peers during Monday's meeting, supported the agreement with police and asked the board not to put a dollar sign on student safety.
Catalina Acevedo, a Marin School parent, asked the board not to ignore the good that has come with the partnership.
"Yes, there are differences, but school police have no objection to the professional management provided to them," said former Mayor Thomas Bucci, an attorney who represents the school police officers' union. "I caution you against tampering with management of police officers."
Schools Superintendent Paul Vallas, who helped broker the partnership, said the district is getting additional protection at no extra cost.
"When Newtown hit and our district got blanketed with extra security, it didn't cost me a dime, because the city paid for it," Vallas said.
Several other speakers on Monday night also brought up the Sandy Hook shootings.
Jose Torres, a parent and spouse of a school security guard, said undoing the merger would put children at risk.
But not everyone thinks the partnership is so wonderful.
Steve Nelson, a school police officer since 1982, said it was a mistake for speakers to equate the issue to what happened in Newtown.
"We are not Sandy Hook," Nelson said.
He said the system worked as it was before the merger.
"An officer outside with a gun is not a good substitute for school resource officers in the schools," Nelson said.
Gaudett, however, said the district benefits by having the services of a deputy chief, captain, lieutenant and sergeant to oversee the daily operations of school security at no extra cost.
Before the agreement, the district had a series of school security chiefs that all seemed to have different styles of management, said Dwayne Harrison, a school police officer for 21 years.
The partnership has brought unity, Harrison said, and "when it comes to safety, unity is important."
Board of Education Chairwoman Sauda Baraka said the issue is not something that just happened, but has been simmering since last April, when the police chief declined to attend a security committee meeting to answer questions.
"This is not something willy-nilly or not well-thought-out," Baraka said. "We needed information."


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Jon Gosselin Says Sorry For What He Did To Kate Gosselin
It's been three years since their bitter divorce. Now Jon tells all that he and Kate are getting along and that he's sorry for the way he behaved after they separated. Vote, do YOU think he's truly sorry?
After the divorce and the dramatic child support battle, Jon Gosselin publicly apologizes to his ex-wife Kate Gosselin.
"I am sorry, because I did stuff I wouldn't want done to me," the 35-year-old former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star tells PEOPLE, referring to his post-divorce stream of women he dated.
The report says he accepts his share of responsibility for the divorce. "I was passive-aggressive," he says. "Then I'd get mad, but I was the one who wasn't communicating."
He says that he keeps in contact with Kate and asks advice about raising their eight children
Jon is living in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He works as the director of sales and promotions for Gameface Int. He is dating single mom Liz Jannetta, 27.
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Manchester City are prepared to sell £24m defender Joleon Lescott for a cut-price £8m in January. The England centre-back has been replaced by Matija Nastasic in the Manchester City team this season, and is now deemed surplus to requirements by Roberto Mancini. [The Sun]
Sunderland are keen to sign on-loan defender Danny Rose from Tottenham on a permanent basis. Spurs visit the Stadium of Light on Saturday, and the Black Cats hope to discuss a deal for the England under-21 international. [Sunderland Echo]
Sir Alex Ferguson has revealed Manchester United probably won't conduct any 'serious transfer business' in January, but did not completely rule out bringing in new faces next month. The Old Trafford club have been linked with Everton's Leighton Baines and Borussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski in recent weeks. [Daily Mail]
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Not quite four years ago and not long after I joined Atheist Nexus, the incident with Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood happened. I wrote about it then and wondered at what motivated Hasan to do what he did. As the discovery process and the trial unfolded, we learned, about Anwar al-Awlaki and Hasan's communications with him, about Hasan's radicalization, at least in part from that association and his decision to become a jihadi agent against his own country.
Initially I was somewhat surprised at Hasan's behavior during the trial: representing himself, his near lack of any meaningful opening statement, a total absence of defense and closing statement. Then it became clear – Hasan was falling on his sword. He wanted to lose the trial, wanted to be found guilty, and while the decision hasn't been reached yet, there is no doubt in my mind but that he wants the death penalty levied against him. Nidal Malik Hasan wants to be a martyr.
He may get his wish, too. The evidence against him is overwhelming, I seriously doubt he's shown the least bit of remorse or contrition, and those in the US Army, the wives, husbands, fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, sons and daughters of the victims will very likely demand the death penalty for Hasan, on the basis of their losses and the heinousness of the crime. They want blood for blood and they are hardly to be blamed. The problem is that they're playing directly into his hands. They are giving him precisely what he wants: to be a martyr for his cause.
It is for that reason that under no circumstances should Nidal Malik Hasan get the death penalty. His punishment should be life imprisonment, with absolutely no chance of parole. Rather than having his way, rather than being able to take the easy way out, the coward's way out, he should be forced to live out his life, confronted each day with the people he plotted against, placed in a situation where he is utterly impotent and powerless against them, and forced to live a long life in that confrontation. For Hasan, living is a far worse punishment than death, and it is the utter antithesis of his aspiration to die the martyr's death, the grandest goal Islam offers its faithful.
I realize this goes against the instinct of those who have had to face the dreadful harm Hasan has brought to those who lost loved ones, comrades and companions. I fully understand and respect their desire to see the same fate meted out to him as he arrogantly delivered to those they lost. In this case, though, there is a fate worse than death – the fate of having to live with what you've done and face that day after day, helplessly, and in the very hands of those he sought to undo.
Do not give Nidal Malik Hasan what he wants. Give him what he deserves.
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Well, it's been a week, and the PD apparently didn't opt to put my piece in their op-ed section. Granted, by the time they would have put it up, the death penalty decision had already been rendered, but that by no means closes this particular case. As with virtually all such cases, there will be appeals and petitions and other actions taken by both parties who will continue to argue and pursue their own interests. In the midst of all that, I think the points I bring out above are due some consideration, if not in that court then in the general public.
I do appreciate all your comments, though. Many thanks.
Napoleon, from where I sit, Hasan belongs in the same super-max prison which Thomas Silverstein, that multiple offender Pat referred to earlier, is currently incarcerated at. Indeed, Hasan may deserve precisely the same treatment as Silverstein is getting, though that is not my call. In any case, the utter lack of human contact or highly restricted human contact is a punishment of its own kind, one which I wouldn't underestimate for one second.
My question remains: are the judge and jury deciding the matter of punishment aware of the points I brought here?
Napoleon, I'm somewhat familiar with the US federal prison system having both seen clients inside them and acquaintances with guards and employees. There's a complete ban on tobacco use, absolutely no pets of any kind, and if you're in solitary confinement or "no human contact," no computers. Ohhh, and allow me to mention the food. It's called a "meal loaf," They take all the ingredients, with the right balance of nutrients, for a complete day's meal. They put it in a blender, grind it up, and bake it. You get 1/3 of the loaf (no seasoning, herbs, spices, or flavor), 3 times a day. As to not being raped, that's true. As to no one ever to talk to (in Silverstein's case), that's true too.
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Thanks a lot for your comment, Easton. It's one thing to talk about this business. It's quite another to hear about it from someone who was actually THERE.
I was stationed at Fort Hood during that time the coward shot up the medical section of the processing center. I even had a friend who was supposed to go to that very medical section around that general time frame but her procrastination saved her. And since the coward did what he did the medical section, a number of small buildings, has been cordoned with formidable chain-link fences topped of with concertina wire. He did a very wicked thing and he should be punished.
Originally, I wanted him to get the death sentence as quick as possible. But monitoring his trial I realize it is far better to leave him alive in solitary confinement for the rest of his life. That is what I hope happens to him. From what I understand, solitary confinement is the worst punishment imaginable. The hardest of the hard in federal prisons prefer to be out in general population where their lives are at risk rather than spend any amount of time in solitary confinement. Give him solitary.
I tend to agree with Loren on this one. I do agree with Joan and SB that he should not be allowed to radicalize others. And, there is a way to do that. There's currently an example of this in the Federal Bureau of Prisons. His name is Thomas Silverstein. In 1983, the federal prison in Marion, Illinois, was considered THE maximum security prison in the US; having replaced Alcatraz. In that year, Silverstein murdered a guard named Merle Clutts. (As an aside, Mr. Clutt's son Mike is a good friend of mine). At the time of the murder, SIlverstein was serving multiple life sentences for murders committed while in prison. In 1983, there was no federal death penalty. Silverstein was convicted of the murder, and in an effort to make an example out of hi, his is now serving the rest of life at the Federal Super Max in Colorado. There's a twist. He's the only prisoner I am aware of where there's a standing order that he is to have "no human contact." He's 60 years old, has already done 26 years under the "no human contact" order which constitutes complete isolation, and has a projected release date of 2095. Let's face it, his parole officer hasn't been born. Maybe Hasan should be the next candidate.
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The Fox Township Supervisors approved interim funding of $70,000 for the Fox Township Sewer Authority during their Tuesday meeting.The money will be used to pay the $68,933 balance of the authority's Headworks project, which involved the creation of a pre-filtration system which helps to decrease the wear and tear on the plant.Cheryl Ruffner, chairwoman of the sewer authority, said the organization received a letter from the Pennsylvania Infrastructure and Investment Authority (PENNVEST) on Sept. 15 advising them that the authority will not receive any additional funds until they meet several requirements on the project, such as undergoing an audit, having the project inspected by the state Department of Environment Protection and completion of the project."It will take a while to get these requirements done," Ruffner noted.She explained that once the authority's funding reaches 95 percent used of the original PENNVEST loan payout, the remaining money will be held until the requirements are met.The original loan was taken out in 2003 as part of the $5 million Headworks project. Half of the project was funded by the loan, with the remaining half funded by the authority's savings.


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A woman was arrested following a stabbing early Thursday morning.
Viola Carty, 29, was arrested following an incident around 1:05 a.m. at 1119 Van Wert St.
Conrad Joseph Lancaster Jr., 30, was stabbed during an altercation beween him and Carty, Greensboro police said. Carty then turned the knife on herself, police said.
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Is there a doctor in the house? When it comes to clothing that's too big, too small, too short or too long, needs updating or restyling, Diane McNitt can answer the call.
Recently, the Lansdowne resident launched a recycling, refashioning and altering business she calls The Sewing Doctor. A division of McNitt Marketing, it was prompted by the economic downturn, the need for additional family support and an increased word-of-mouth demand for her skill with needle and thread.
Since the Sewing Doctor makes house calls, she said she does most of her business in Delaware County but does travel west as far as Glen Mills.
It all began when she fixed a badly-torn dust ruffle for her sister. Since it matched the bedspread and curtains, her sister didn't want to discard it. So she asked for McNitt's help.
"Who do you think I am, the sewing doctor?" McNitt said to her sister, a nurse.
McNitt's husband, Joe Foley, also would ask her to rescue items that looked hopeless beyond repair. Son Brian has been on the receiving end of her sewing expertise as well.
But it's not just clothing that's the beneficiary of her imaginative eye and artistry. She's recycled family heirlooms, such as turning a bureau scarf made by her mother in the 1940s into a uniquely beautiful curtain. Printed sheets end up as panels on a room divider and a beloved souvenir T-shirt becomes a pillow.
However, her specialty is refashioning garments that might otherwise be relegated forever to the back of the closet. Being able to fix ailing items brings her great joy, she said. Or as she puts it, she's 'sew' content to sew and bring new life to old things.
For example, she altered a friend's gown for a formal affair that came from a thrift shop. After some strategic nips and tucks and changing the hemline to the proper length, she sent the friend off to the evening "feeling like a princess."
Another project was redoing her husband's favorite vest that had seen better days. She made a completely new back, using the old well-worn back as a pattern.
She also totally redid a dress her mother had worn to a wedding in 1990, so she could wear it to recent family wedding. But before she embarked on the refashioning endeavor, McNitt and her mom went shopping every weekend for a new dress.
"Everything was either too frumpy or too bling-y," said McNitt. "There aren't too many choices for an 88-year-old woman. So we looked in her closet and found the perfect dress, but it needed a lot of redoing."
Another friend who'd lost a lot of weight had a closet full of good quality clothing, but had no time to shop for new clothes.
"So I added darts to her jackets to give them a more flattering fit, and took in the side and middle seams of her pants and shorts, so they'd look more attractive," said McNitt.
That could rightly be called an example of "ex-seam makeover."
McNitt said her love of sewing began years ago when her grandmother would bring home upholstery fabric samples from the furniture department of a major Philadelphia store where she worked. McNitt said she'd use the material to make blankets and pillows for her dolls.
A photo on her tailoring-themed website (www.mcnittmarketing.com) shows her as a little girl with her toy sewing machine. Today she still uses the Kenmore that was a gift from a college boyfriend.
While a Design & Merchandising student at Drexel University, McNitt worked for a professor in the newly formed Fashion Design Research Studio. There, clothing was designed and produced for people with disabilities. From then on, she said, she knew she wanted to use her sewing ability to help others.
As a cancer survivor, she knows treatment often causes weight loss and clothes become baggy. She noted there are services and shops that help cancer patients with their hair, skin and makeup, but no one helps them with their wardrobe. Well-fitting clothes make women feel good and that boosts their spirits, she said.
As The Sewing Doctor, McNitt goes into the client's home and does the first set of alterations. She has another fitting – an extra step to ensure a perfect fit – then does the final alterations and delivers the items.
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- Eggplant Parmigiana. It's all about The Aubergine these days for some reason. Mostly grilling it with a brush stroke of olive oil and sea salt at the end.
- Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster.
- Every buttercream for the kid's birthday cakes has ended in disaster. Without fail, year after year.
- What is your idea of comfort food?
- Spaghetti Bolognese with Coca-Cola in a glass bottle.
- Apron or no apron?
- Apron!
- What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?
- Emma Recchi (Tilda Swinton), eating a plate of prawns in I am Love.
- If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be?
- I would have my brother with me in a mountain chalet while it's snowing like mad and I'm making him the perfect Swiss fondue. He loved cheese more than anyone.
- You prefer to cook: a. alone, b. with others, c. it depends on your mood
- C. It depends on my mood
- When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean.
- The answer used to be C. but now after living in Switzerland it's become A. cleaning as I cook.
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"Dear baggage gods - my bag has disappeared into some weird vortex between Dallas and Austin. Please return it to me ASAP... Trying hard not to be upset... But I'm upset. Thissucks (sic)... no one can even tell me where it is."


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Many thanks for posting this - I've just tried this and, like yours, my machine works absolutely fine when started with the LCD nearly closed
01-07-2011 09:38 AM - edited 01-07-2011 09:40 AM
a week ago I disassembled the notebook to disscover iIt really was a broken LCD cable.
I've been mailing a number of notebookdisplay-shops in germany but none was able to deliver the broken cable.
Lenovo will only sell a combination of the cable+lcd and charges 330€ (despite the financial insanity, think of the environmental aspect: wasting a fine working LCD for the reason of ONE BROKEN WIRE, nice job Lenovo, really "Green Computing")
So I decided to solder the cable myself, with success as it seems. (Since I am writing from the C200 at the moment )
The whole procedure is quite simple and I think everybody who is able to handle a screw driver + a soldering iron (and has the strong desire/need for a working laptop without wasting any more money on our chinese notebook friends) should be capable of doing it.
1. You only need to remove the the display frame (6 screws under the small rubber things) an another 2 screws for releasing the backside of the display lid)
2. Remove the panel with powerbutton hotkeys (its only clipped no screws at all)
3. loose the last two screws to remove the keyboard
4. Now you can unplug the cable from the mainboard (one plug for the lcd, one for the backlit) and remove the other end of the cable from the backside of the lcd an inverter
5. You need to carefully remove the metal tape which is wrapped around the cabel an then look for the defective wire...
Good luck!
Thanks Martin,
I can't tell you how happy i am to have a working screen again! A simple thing i know but very annoying when you can't see things full screen.
Anyway, it was as you described: one tiny wire had snapped. I soldered a new piece in and hey presto - result!
Respect to that man.
THX ans nice thing it worked for you, too!
For the benefit of the search, the cable in question is marked:
Searching by DC02000BU00, these are now available on eBay for about USD 16, shipped from Hong Kong of course.
Since mine is now really broken and the wires them are truely tiny, I've ordered one of these 'compatible' replacements. I hope it works!
Since developing the original fault, my laptop screen had also gone 'streaky' at times, which I'd assumed to be more wires breaking.
Anyway, the new cable arrived and fitted just fine, and has resolved the original problem so screen is properly detected every time.
However the screen itself I think is on it's last legs as the 'streaky-ness' comes and goes. But at least it's usable.
So anyway, thanks to the mappi for posting the info about the cable problem
I'm so glad I found this thread because trying to describe the problem to other people they thought I was mad! I have a 3000 C200 and it seems this is a common fault with this model.
I have exalt the same problem with an offset desktop screen, about 4cm is missing from the left side and 1 cm missing from the top. When I boot the Lenovo bios screen is blurry and also offset. Clearly the wrong resolution is being detected internally regardless of what Windows display settings and Intel GMA settings are saying.
In the beginning the screen wouldn't even turn on past the windows loading screen, then sometimes it would but be offset, then sometimes it would be fine.... this lead me to suspect that it wasn't a software but a hardware issue and that seems to be the case.
So I take it the way to fix this is open up the screen housing and find that little wire that people are saying has come loose? Can it be reattached with a soldering iron or can you replace the whole component? Also does anyone have a link to the C200's service manual so I can see a take apart guide?
EDIT, I just read the whole thread through and I see more clearly what I have to do now, I will see how badly damaged the wire is then see whether to fix it or get the replacement part. In all fairness this laptop has worked perfectly for nearly 6 years but its still quite an inconvenience to fix. I have laptops from the 1980's and their monochrome screens still work fine!


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- Your Choice of One Wireless Mic
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- Reaches a distance of 100 yards
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- High efficiency re-entrant horn driver
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- Made in the USA
- Six Year Warranty
- Product HWD: 14" x 13" x 8.5"
- Weight: 16 lbs
Deluxe Package FeaturesPurchasing a MegaVox Deluxe Air Package gives you two speakers and everything you need to operate your sound system - right out of the box!
Included in PackageThe MegaVox Deluxe Air Package includes the powered speaker with Bluetooth, wireless transmitter (for companion speaker), and one wireless receiver installed (for wireless mic). Also included is a wireless battery operated companion speaker. Two Speaker Stands and your choice of wireless mic. The MIC-50 wired microphone is always included with the MegaVox Pro as well as a charging cable.
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Connects to Assistive Listening SystemThe AIR companion transmitter also connects seamlessly with Anchor Audio's Assistive Listening Devices (ALB-9000), which operate on the same 902-928 MHz, resulting in an immediate ADA-compliant sound system. Main-unit systems are available with up to two wireless microphone receivers in addition to the AIR wireless companion transmitter.
Separate Volume Controls The mic and each input on the MegaVox Pro has a separate volume control. It's like have a built-in mixer! Surprisingly easy to use, softer speaking voices can easily be turned up so they are not overpowered by louder voices. Background music can be played in the background throughout as well. All being easily adjusted on the back of the MegaVox Pro.
16 Wireless ChannelsThe wireless transmitters offers 16 user-selectable channels for great wireless reception. If there is interference on the wireless channel you are using you can simply switch to a different channel and have 16 to choose from. If there is another Anchor system within range and they are using the same channel you can switch to a different channel so each can operate without interrupting each other.
Anchor Wireless Mics16 Channel Anchor Wireless Mics
The mics featured here are 16 channel UHF wireless mics that are compatible with any of the Anchor Audio packages with a wireless receiver installed. Currently the 8000 series microphone is what is being shipped with all 8000 series models. These have a frequency set of 540 - 570 MHz.
If you have an older 6000 or 7500 series unit and you would like to use the mic that you currently have we can have the 6000 frequency receiver installed into your new sound system.
CM-60 Collar Mic
Worn Around Collar Area
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- Worn around neck
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- Does Not Clip to Clothing
- TA4F Plug
EM-60T Over the Ear Mic
Worn Over the Ear
- Requires WB-8000 Transmitter
- Worn over the ear
- Keeps mic close to mouth
- Small Windscreen
- TA4F Plug
Headband Mic
- Requires WB-8000 Transmitter
- Keeps mic close to mouth
- Allows Head to Turn
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Handheld Mic
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- On/Off Button
- Two Year Warranty
Use with Hands Free Mics
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- Frequency 540 - 570 MHz
- Belt Worn Transmitter
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- On/Off Switch
- Two Year Warranty
LM-60 Lapel Mic
Clips to Front of Shirt or Lapel
- Requires WB-8000 Transmitter
- Clips on front of clothing
- Places a Few Inches Mic Under Chin
- TA4F Plug
NL-MEGANylon Cover
The NL-MEGA will provide a nylon cover specifically made for the MegaVox Pro sound system. The cover will hold one MegaVox sound system or one companion speaker.
Weight: 1 lb
Dimensions: 14.5" x 15" x 15"
SOFT-MEGASoft Nylon Cover
The SOFT-MEGA provides a rolling case with an extension handle for the MegaVox Pro. The case will hold one MegaVox sound system or one companion speaker. The case has a compartment for the mic & small accessories.
Weight: 8 lbs
Dimensions: 20" x 15" x 15"
HC-ARMOR24-MVHard Case
The HC-ARMOR24-MV is a hard case for the MegaVox Pro. The case will hold one MegaVox Pro sound system or one companion speaker. The case has Pick-N-Pluck foam enough space for small accessories.
Weight: 22 lbs
Dimensions: 25" x 19" x 5"
CC-550Speaker Stand Case
The CC-550 will hold two SS-550 speaker stands making transporting easy.
Weight 1 lb
Dimensions: 44" x 8" x 8"
6000-18PTA4F to 3.5mm Cable - Mono
The 6000-18P is a cable with a female TA4F to male 3.5mm mono connector for use with the WB-8000 transmitter. This allows you to connect an audio source to the WB-8000 wireless transmitter.
Length: 36"
6000-18PsTA4F to 3.5mm Cable - Stereo
The 6000-18P is a cable with a female TA4F to male 3.5mm stereo connector for use with the WB-8000 transmitter. This allows you to connect a stereo audio source to the WB-8000 wireless transmitter.
Length: 36"
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Steamboat Springs' teachers union at odds with district over surplus spending
November 12, 2012
Steamboat Springs — The Steamboat Springs School District's recent spending of a $143,000 budget surplus is drawing fire from the district's teachers union.
The tension between district administration and the teachers could spur the School Board on Nov. 19 to consider adopting a new policy giving it more control over how the district spends large surpluses in the future.
The district used much of this year's surplus — which was the result of an enrollment increase of more than 22 full-time students — to fund the additional personnel administrators say the school system needed to accommodate its growing student population.
But some of the district's expenditures, including $12,000 for telephone and internet service expenses and a planned expense of up to $9,829 to hire a part-time administrative assistant at the district's front office, aren't sitting well with several teachers who think the dollars could be better spent elsewhere.
In a letter she sent last week to Superintendent Brad Meeks and the School Board, Steamboat Springs Education Association President Babette Dickson charged that "much of the money seems to be going to expenses that have no impact" on students.
She said teachers were especially surprised and disappointed to see the district advertise a position that was dropped from the school district's budget last spring after it faced heavy criticism from parents, teachers and members of the School Board.
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"It was not popular knowing we had some budget cuts to do last year," Dickson said about the district's most recent proposal to hire an administrative assistant to work 25 hours a week in the district's central office.
Dickson and members of the SSEA plan to address the School Board about their concerns next week.
Meeks on Monday defended the district's spending of the surplus, saying every item being funded is a necessary priority for the district.
He said the surplus spending was done with careful input from the district's principals starting in the summer.
"Our primary focus is on the buildings, and I think if you take a look at (the list of surplus spending), it supports that," Meeks said.
Asked about teachers' criticism of the reintroduction of the administrative assistant position, Meeks said it remains a critical need.
"Even though we couldn't address adding the clerical position in the spring, it doesn't mean we don't have needs here," he said "What ends up happening is our directors spend a lot of time copying, folding and organizing notebooks for meetings. It's not an efficient use of their time to do those things."
The new position was posted Nov. 1 but it hasn't been filled.
In addition to potentially funding the clerical position, the surplus this year has funded an additional reading section at Steamboat Springs Middle School, an additional kindergarten teacher, a long-term substitute teacher at Yampa Valley High School, and $11,000 worth of teacher salary increases.
About $25,000 of the surplus remains unspent.
Also drawing concern from teachers is what the surplus isn't being used to cover.
The district this year saw its nursing staff at the schools drop to a level that sometimes leaves no medical staff at the buildings.
Dickson said the situation has worried some teachers who have students with conditions like diabetes and asthma, and it could become a potential liability issue for the district.
"It seems imperative, for liability concerns, that each of our buildings be staffed appropriately and professionally," Dickson wrote to Meeks.
The district contracts with the Northwest Colorado Visiting Nurse Association to provide its nursing staff, which this year includes two nurses and two health aides at a cost of $166,000.
Meeks said the district has been meeting monthly with the VNA and is in negotiations over the service levels that declined this school year partly because the VNA hasn't been charging the district enough to cover the entirety of its services.
"We want to make sure (the contract with the VNA) is covering all of our needs in the district," Meeks said.
Board ponders changes
The teachers union's concern over the surplus spending has School Board President Brian Kelly pondering whether board members should have had more control over how the district spent the extra revenue.
"It's an unusual circumstance," Kelly said Monday. "There's a significant issue there with the amount of money and how you should go about dividing that amount. The question before us is whether it should go back to the budget process, and if so, what's the limit on" the amount of a surplus the district can spend before it seeks approval from the School Board.
The School Board has not formally approved any of the surplus spending. Instead, they have been provided with two budget updates tracking the spending. They will approve an amended version of their 2012-13 budget in January.
Under the board's policy, unexpected expenditures greater than $25,000 must be approved by the board, and Kelly said it needs to discuss whether it should adopt a new policy to give it more oversight on the surplus spending.
He added that he felt $143,000 was a large enough sum of spending to require some sort of board action.
Still, he said he recognized the district's need to spend the money at its discretion on time-sensitive needs such as adding an additional teacher to accommodate increased enrollment.
"We might come up with some methodology for an expedited review because the district's need to spend this money might be immediate," he said.
Meeks said he planned to meet with Dickson and other members of the SSEA before the next board meeting on Monday
In previous years, he said the SSEA had more input on the surplus revenue because it didn't finish contract negotiations for raises and benefits packages until after the district knew how much extra revenue it would receive from enrollment increases.
But this fall, the SSEA didn't need to negotiate with the district because it agreed to a two-year salary and benefits package last year during those negotiations that awarded district employees $1 million in raises over two years.
Meeks said the one-year reprieve from the bargaining table gives teachers more peace of mind knowing they would receive salary increases, and district officials more latitude to spend the surplus revenue.
Dickson said she hopes teachers eventually gain a stronger voice in the district's process to allocate the surplus each year.
"We definitely hope they understand where we are and that we have a different view on what we need," she said.
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Economic growth speeds climate change
By Michael Perry
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Global warming is occurring faster than predicted because rapid economic growth has resulted in higher than expected greenhouse gas emissions since 2000, said an Australian report on Tuesday.
Emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased about 3 percent a year since 2000, up from 1 percent a year during the 1990s, said Australia's peak scientific body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO).
"A major driver of the accelerating growth rate in emissions is that, globally, we're burning more carbon per dollar of wealth created," CSIRO scientist Mike Raupach said in a statement.
"It means that climate change is occurring faster than has been predicted by most of the studies done through the 1990s and into the early 2000s," he said.
Raupach led an international team of carbon-cycle experts, emissions experts and economists, brought together by the CSIRO's Global Carbon Project, to quantify global carbon emissions and demand for fossil fuels.
The report found nearly 8 billion metric tons of carbon were emitted globally into the atmosphere as carbon dioxide in 2005, compared with just 6 billion metric tons in 1995.
"As countries undergo industrial development, they move through a period of intensive, and often inefficient, use of fossil fuel," said Raupach.
"Efficiencies improve along this development trajectory, but eventually tend to level off. Industrialized countries such as Australia and the U.S. are at the leveling-off stage, while developing countries such as China are at the intensive development stage."
Since the start of the industrial revolution, the United States and Europe account for more than 50 percent of global emissions over two centuries, while China accounts for less than 8 per cent, said the CSIRO report.
The 50 least-developed nations contributed less than 0.5 percent of global emissions over 200 years, it said.
On average, each person in Australia and the United States now emits more than 5 tons of carbon per year, while in China the figure is 1 ton per year, said the report.
"In addition to reinforcing the urgency of the need to reduce emissions, an important outcome of this work is to show that carbon emissions have history," said Raupach.
"We have to take both present and past emissions trajectories into account in negotiating global emissions reductions. To be effective, emissions reductions have to be both workable and equitable," he said.
The CSIRO report found Australia's per capita emissions were amongst the highest in the world due to a heavy reliance on fossil-fuel generated electricity and a dependence on cars and trucks for transport.
"That means that we have quite a way to go in terms of reducing our emissions to bring about CO2 stabilization," said Raupach. "Our own improvements in the energy efficiency of the economy ... have been not as rapid as improvements in other developed countries."
Australia, like close ally the United States, refuses to sign the Kyoto Protocol setting caps on greenhouse gas emissions, and has called for a global scheme to replace "Old Kyoto."
Both countries say the pact is unworkable because it excludes big developing nations such as India and China from binding targets during the treaty's first phase, which ends in 2012. China is the world's second top emitter of carbon dioxide after the United States.
Negotiations have yet to start in earnest on shaping Kyoto's next phase, with India and China strongly opposed to binding targets and demanding rich nations, particularly the United States, commit to deep reductions in emissions.


text: April 2011 Issue May 03, 2012 Call for Proposals for Educator's Voice, Vol. VI Source: Educator's Voice Call for Article Proposals for Educator's Voice, Vol. VI: Implementing the NYS Common Core Learning Standards English Language Arts & Literacy (P-12) DOWNLOAD: Content Guidelines and Submission Form Instructional Shifts Educator's Voice is NYSUT's Journal of Best Practices in Education - a series dedicated to highlighting research-based classroom and school/district-wide strategies that make a difference in student achievement. The theme for our next volume, to be published in spring 2013, is Implementing the NYS P-12 Common Core Learning Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy. As New York state moves into full implementation of the Standards, we seek descriptions of exemplary standards-based teaching practices to share with the field. Tell us what you have designed and implemented in relationship to the Standards, and specifically, the "Six Shifts" in ELA/Literacy. [For more information on Instructional Shifts, go to NYSED.gov and search: Instructional Shifts, or go to http://engageny.org/resource/common-core-shifts] Balancing Information and Literary Texts (PK-5) Building Knowledge and Literacy in the Content Disciplines (6-12) The concept of "Staircase of Complexity" (i.e., students read the central, grade- appropriate text around which instruction is centered-while teachers provide scaffolding and supports for students as needed) Focus on teaching students to develop "Text-Based Answers" (i.e., offer evidence from the text in speaking and writing) Writing from Sources Continuous building of Academic Vocabulary to access complex texts Editorial Guidelines Authors: Authors must be active or retired members of NYSUT or an affiliate (e.g., United University Professions, Professional Staff Congress). If there are multiple authors, at least one author must be a current or retired NYSUT member. The Editorial Board encourages articles by individual authors, teams of teachers, and higher education faculty working with teachers in P-12 schools. Grade and Content Area: Author(s) can represent any area of the curriculum and any P-12 setting. For example, a fourth-grade teacher and special education teacher may address their literacy approaches as a teaching team; a high school social studies, math, or health teacher may discuss incorporating the ELA Learning Standards into instruction. Audience: Classroom teachers, school-related professionals, union leaders, parents, administrators, higher education faculty, researchers, legislators and policymakers. Deadline for proposals: June 8, 2012. Article length: Approximately 2,000 words (or 7-8 double-spaced pages plus References). Writing style: Authors are encouraged to write in a direct style designed to be helpful to both practitioners and to others committed to strengthening education. Education terms (i.e., jargon) should be defined for a broad audience. Manuscript: American Psychological Association (APA) style with references at end of article. (Graphics/photographs may be submitted - with permissions as necessary. Please do not submit copyrighted material unless you obtain permission from the publisher.) Rights: Acceptance of a proposal is not a guarantee of publication. Publication decisions are made by the Editorial Board. NYSUT retains the right to edit articles. The author will have the right to review changes and if not acceptable to both parties, the article will not be included in Educator's Voice. NYSUT may also retain the article for possible use on the NYSUT website (www.nysut.org) or for future publication in NYSUT United. Content Guidelines Authors are asked to describe: The context for the reader (area of curriculum, grade, class composition). The standards you targeted for instruction, and which of the Instructional Shifts are represented in your description (may be several). The research-based practice(s) you chose and materials you used or developed. Outcomes your students achieved, and a description of how you collected assessment information. How you accommodated students with disabilities, students who are English language learners, or other students with unique learning needs. Why you view your instructional design as successful in addressing the Common Core ELA Standards, and what you might modify in the future. A description of how you brought parents and caregivers in as partners in ensuring that students achieve the new Learning Standards - or a description of how you plan to in the coming year. A variation of the above related to the new Learning Standards (e.g., description of professional development program at your school/district/BOCES).


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Gardenhire talked about the stability he expects from Jamie Carroll [sp] at shortstop this season. He said he was never in favor of sending Jason Bartlett to the Rays in '07 in the trade that brought Delmon Young to Minnesota. Also, he added that he wasn't happy with the decision to not bring back Nick Punto last offseason. But he was happy to see him win the World Series with the Cardinals, and texted him shortly after the Fall Classic to congratulate him.
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being gay is as normal as it is for the grass to be green and the sky to be blue, that is what i told him, something that i had to learn and accept myself not that long ago.
i have held back a lot of writing, buried it in the vault or tagged it in ambiguous metaphor. but this healing, this relationship, is as much about me as it is about him. it's inexorably tied to my art & purpose.
relationships are always our greatest mirrors and if we're honest with ourselves we will uncover the truths & meaning in each and every one of them, be it a parent, a child, a friend, a lover, or a lifelong companion.
nature is fragile but it has a way of persisting, sometimes in the wildest & darkest sanctuaries. we are in our sanctuary, you & me. and they may not understand, they may not approve, and they may judge us. but we will survive because that is who we are and the love we harness every day is the most powerful force in the universe. we're a team, and i'm so thankful for you.
she has been sick for months but i really didn't realize the gravity of it until this past week when i got to see her with my own eyes & hold her in my arms.
my sister is one of the strongest people i know, although she doesn't fully know it herself. she is a single parent of two small children, one of whom is very ill. she works at a stressful job and on top of all that she is going to school to try to make a better life for herself and her family. i don't think she has any idea how much i admire her strength and i don't think she realizes how her unconditional love has taught me so much and even possibly saved my life. but i owe her a lot and i hope to somehow repay that debt.
i have the closest thing to a soulmate in you. you are my balance, my truth and many times, my sanity. you are an amazing woman and without you i would never have made it this far. your love is brilliant and everyone who truly knows you has tasted its light. you have been there for me when no one else was at some of the darkest moments i have ever experienced.
our journey could be a 3-part movie already and it's only in its infancy. or maybe it has come full circle. but that's the thing with you & me – at the dead-end of each road is a secret little path, an overgrown trail, filled with berry bushes & butterflies. one of us always sees it.
you are an amazing teacher, and probably the only one who knows all that i went through for so long and understands that part of my life from a first-hand perspective, from a front row seat.
even though i've not always been the best communicator you never judged me for that, you just kept showing me love and patience while i figured things out on my own. and you never let me forget that there was hope and another way. you kept truth in front of me until i was strong enough to reach out and grab it by myself. you believed in my art.
sometimes you make me laugh inside with the "crazy" things you say. sometimes the truth of what you say stings. and every once in awhile you go just a tad overboard.
but the fact is that we have gone through things that no one else can ever fully understand. and you have been a part of my life for the past ten years that i am grateful for and that no one else could have played as elegantly or profoundly. we will be friends and a support for each-other always. and we will make sure she has the best chance possible.
and you are thousands of miles away now, but with me in my dreams, and a powerful force that leads me by example each day. this past fall, winter & spring you showed me how to love myself and how to live in authenticity & truth despite the shit life throws at us and the people that judge us. you accepted everything about me effortlessly and taught me to wave my freak flag high. you made me believe in the power of spirit, our collective-consciousness and a better world.
all those nights we spent watching crazy movies, painting our nails, reading our cards, talking, supporting each-other, the hikes we took, the drives we took, the scotch we drank – everything we did together – it changed my life in a way i will never forget and that i am deeply thankful for. you are a kindred spirit and i love you like i love my own daughter.
there is so much more to say and it will be said. so many more experiences & people that have touched my life. but as i finish this post a cricket appeared out of nowhere to rest on top of my monitor. he's just chilling there, no worries, no fear. i'm in my living room.
you see, i live in a place now where there can be no fear, with people just as fearless as this land is. here there is only peace, serenity & love, because that is what our own survival and the universe demands. it's a fight and it is hard at times. so hard that we just have to burst into laughter sometimes or we'd shrivel up & die. but if you spent a night here by our fire, under these stars, and if you felt the way these mountains hold us, you would know no fear and you would know our love.
you should join us.
"i'll be here patiently waiting…"
for j, m, d, k, c & r. and for me.
by JTW
©2012 JTW "jtwhitaker.com" All rights reserved.


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Quick! Check your pantry. Do you have a can of sweetened condensed milk lurking in your cupboard? Yep, it should be right by the evaporated milk you bought to make Pumpkin Pie. Did you find it? Good. Because today, we are talking about Gail Borden and one of his most successful inventions, (next to Elsie the cow that is:) sweetened condensed milk! (actually, Elsie didn't come along until many years later:)
|By all accounts, Gail Borden Jr. was an extraordinary human being.
As an American philanthropist, businessman, and inventor, Gail Borden, Jr. envisioned food concentrates as a means of safeguarding the human food supply. He was the first to develop a commercial method of condensing milk, and the dairy company founded by him (renamed Borden, Inc., in 1968) expanded and diversified to become a sizable corporation operating in many areas of business.
It would be a futile attempt on my part to review the many accomplishments of "America's Milkman." I have referred to Dr. Borden often on this blog and at my Tasteful Inventions blog. Today, I would like to concentrate on that creamy, sugary, canned syrup we all indulge and love, sweetened condensed milk.
Returning from a trip to England in 1851, he was greatly distressed to see how hundreds of poor immigrants suffered—and their babies sickened and died—from lack of fresh milk on the long sea voyage. At that time the only way to provide milk at sea was to carry cows on the ship, but even then there was no ice for keeping the milk, no means of protecting it against contamination.
Condensed Milk Timeline:Up to the early 1880s, condensed milk was the only kind of milk sold in hermetically sealed cans; evaporated milk was manufactured, but it was sold like fresh milk in open containers. Condensed milk was inexpensive to transport and its keeping qualities were highly dependable. I should mention, although this is a brief timeline of the evolution of condensed milk, Gail Borden's experiments; successes and failures were not without financial hardship and personal loss.
- November 9, 1801: Gail Borden born in Norwich, New York.
- 1851: Visiting a Shaker community at New Lebanon, N.Y., Borden was inspired by the vacuum pans he had seen used by Shakers to condense fruit juice. He decides that milk could be condensed in the same way without burning it or having it curdle. It then could remain wholesome indefinitely.
- 1853: Gail Borden applies to patent his revolutionary process for canning milk by concentrating it in a partial vacuum and adding sugar to preserve it.
- August 19, 1856: Gail Borden (nearly 56 years old:) receives US patent #15,553 for his milk condensing process. For the first time milk can be kept pure and storable without the benefit of refrigeration and also can be safely distributed over great distances...The first condensary is set up at Wolcottville, Conn—now the city of Torrington as Gail Borden & Company. Because of insufficient money to operate the factory, the plant was abandoned.
- 1857: Gail Borden establishes the New York Condensed Milk Company and begins manufacturing and selling condensed milk under the now famous Eagle Brand.
- 1858: With financial backing from Jeremiah Milbank the name of the company is changed to the New York Condensed Milk Co., and an office is opened in the basement of 173 Canal Street, New York City.
- May 22, 1858: The first advertisement for "Borden's Condensed Milk" appears in Leslie's Weekly.
- June, 1861: Just two months after the outbreak of the Civil War, a larger factory is needed and Borden moves to the village of Wassaic, New York which was located on the railroad and offered better chances for expansion. "The United States Government immediately commandeers the entire output of condensed milk for use in the Army and in hospitals."
- 1864: Gail Borden's New York Condensed Milk Company constructed the New York Milk Condensery in Brewster, New York. This condensery, a model of cleanliness and efficiency was the largest and most advanced milk factory and was Borden's first commercially successful plant. Over 200 dairy farmers supplied 20,000 gallons of milk daily to the Brewster plant as demand was driven by the Civil War.
- 1866: The first European condensed milk factory is built by The Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company at Cham, Switzerland under the direction of George H. Page.
- 1871: The first Canadian condensery was built at Truro, Nova Scotia, in 1871
- 1874: Borden dies in Borden, Texas on January 11, 1874.
Sweetened Condensed Milk RecipesAs I was scanning through an assortment of Eagle Brand recipe books in my collection, I became intrigued with one particular heading in New Magic in the Kitchen most likely published in the early 1920s. The ladies who compiled the booklet challenged themselves to note the difference in cooking the same recipes. One would construct the recipe using sweetened condensed milk and the other would use the "long" method of preparing the same recipe. The purpose of this experiment was to display the time and the number of ingredients in each recipe. Here are the results for two of the five recipes.
Intrigued by the notion, I chose this Graham Cracker Cake recipe from the booklet and a similar recipe for Old Fashioned Graham Cracker Cake found here.
Here's a recipe for Caramel Pudding from the same booklet and the Smitten Kitchen.
Oh this is fun! Let's change it up a bit though. I found this recipe for Butterscotch Dip in a more recent addition of Eagle Brand Dessert recipes. I also found an intriguing rendition at the Food Network, presented by Paula Deen.
As you can imagine, I could go on and on sharing sweetened condensed milk recipes. Alas, no can do...However, there are spoonfuls of recipes around you. I've left a few starting points below. One last thing, when it comes to sweetened condensed milk, it's very easy to make at home. Here's one recipe to make your own. And another from about.com
How To Make Sweetened Condensed Milk Substitute
Here's How:
1. Pour 1/2 cup of boiling water into a blender.
2. Add 1 cup of nonfat dry milk.
3. Add 2/3 cup sugar.
4. Add 3 tablespoons of melted butter.
5. Add a few drops of vanilla.
Cover and blend on high speed for 30 seconds or until smooth.
Remove from the blender.
Use in a recipe immediately or store in a covered container in the refrigerator.
Tip: A food processor may be used to blend the ingredients.
1. Condensed Milk and Milk Powder: Prepared for the Use of Milk Condenseries By Otto Frederick Hunziker (1920) @google books
2. Mr. Hires and the Black Cow (previous post)
3. Condensed Milk vs. Evaporated Milk; what's the difference?
4. Can I use fat free sweetened condensed milk in place of full fat?
1. Gloria, hostess of Canela Kitchen, is a huge fan of sweetened condensed milk. A quick search on her blog turned up a delicious assortment of recipes!
2. Milk in a Can Goes Glam (Interesting article from The New York Times)
3. Sweetened Condensed Milk Cocada
4. Condensed Milk Fudge
5. Inside-Out German Chocolate Cake with a decadent sweetened condensed milk filling
6. Vietnamese Iced Coffee (Cafe Sua Da)
7. Impossible Cake (AKA chocoflan) (Pastel Imposible (AKA Chocoflan) Rick Bayless
8. Aunt Ruth's Famous Butterscotch Cheesecake Recipe


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When Boards of Canada returned earlier this year with the long awaited Tomorrow's Harvest they had a lot to live up to. Their 1998 debut full-length Music Has the Right to Children will forever remain one of the defining releases in the history of electronic music, and the sheer quality of follow-ups Geogaddi and The Campfire Headphase accentuated their legend to the point at which only the very best would do on Tomorrow's Harvest. That is of course what we got, which means the series of Warp reissues of the Sandison brothers' back catalogue may seem slightly ill-timed. Why revel in the duo's past when their new classic is but a few months old?
Well, if for no other reason, the repressing of three often overlooked EPs make this reissue series more than worthwhile. The studio albums have been near universally acclaimed over the years, but Boards of Canada's shorter form output remains often forgotten in discussion. Perhaps this is because, unlike in the case of contemporaries Autechre for example, Boards of Canada's EPs have always seemed less like extensions of their album than separate entities entirely. Despite this, each of these three EPs tell us as much, if not more, about the enigmatic Sandisons as any of their full-length exploits.
Twoism, originally released in 1995, presents us with a Boards of Canada that is youthful and naïve, yet to fulfil the grandiose uniqueness of its musical vision and, perhaps, as yet unaware even of quite what that musical vision is. Nevertheless it's a charming record. Eight tracks (nine, if you include the unlisted bonus at the end of 'Smokes Quantity') of pleasantly bubbling ambient techno, free of the weight of creative necessity and of the darkness that would slowly creep into their work over time.
Aside from opener 'Sixtyniner', which should be familiar to anyone who has heard the unofficial first studio album Boc Maxima, all the tracks on Twoism fail to have resurfaced anywhere else in the Boards catalogue. Effectively this makes them the earliest insight available to the band's initial musical stylings. The template that would later be used on Music Has the Right to Children is less defined here, which explains the increased harshness in sound on 'Basefree' and the unapologetic silliness of 'Iced Cooly', but equally joining the dots between the two releases isn't all that difficult. Ultimately, Twoism feels like a sonically incomplete Boards of Canada, but is all the more interesting as a result.
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country, released as a stopgap between Music Has the Right to Children and Geogaddi, shows how far Boards of Canada had come within five years. Conceptually focused around the Branch Davidian sect and its Waco retreat, it acts as an effective precursor to Geogaddi without quite gearing itself up to that record's complexity. Listening directly after Twoism is slightly jarring, prompting the realisation that, even if their discography retains a unique feel all of its own, there is not quite the uniform "Boards of Canada sound" that many have tried to claim.
At once sounding both more modern and, appropriately, more rural, than earlier Boards material, In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country is perhaps most notable for featuring the slowed, manipulated voice of Amo Bishop Roden, the wife of a rival of Davidian leader David Koresh who also lends her name to another of the EP's four tracks, on the title track. It's a sound not quite like anything else in the Boards of Canada catalogue, managing to sound more human than their common sample use and yet, partially because of the subject matter, also far less so. It's the highlight of an EP that contains, for my money, four of the best tracks in the entire Boards of Canada discography.
Trans Canada Highway, released nine months after The Campfire Headphase may be less distinguished than the preceding two EPs, if only because how recent it is makes it less of a curio for fans interested in seeing the development of Boards of Canada over time. Kicking off with album track 'Davyan Cowboy', and ending with a slightly overlong Odd Nosdam remix of the same track, the four new tracks present offer slim pickings for fans, with two being sub-two minute interludes, but the quality is as high as ever. The atmosphere of Geogaddi permeates 'Skyliner', whilst the breezy 'Left Side Drive' could easily be a lost recording from the Music Has the Right to Children sessions. Ultimately the EP is too short for the interlude tracks to feel fully worthwhile.
What runs through each of these three EPs, albeit to a lesser extent on Trans Canada Highway, is the sense of Boards of Canada as a pair of restless musical souls. For all the mysteriousness surrounding their origins and their creative process, and for all the lengthy hiatuses between records, the breadth of imagination the Sandison brothers have displayed over the course of their career to date extends far further than their love of vintage modular hardware occasionally suggests. Certainly their albums make that fairly clear, but if you want the complete picture then these EPs, which are far better than mere offcuts, are utterly essential.
Twoism - 8/10
In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country - 9/10
Trans Canada Highway - 7/10
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